A Difcourfe of Forefl-Trees. 85 



now living J did oft fay, he loft 30 li. by the not buying of it. 



A Hammer-beam is not left then j\ yards long, and 4 

 foot fquare at the barrel. 

 In Sheffield Par k^^ below the iW^wr, a Tree was ftanding which 

 was fold by one Cijfard ffervant to the then Countef o£ Kent) for 

 2 li. 10 s. to one Nich. Hicks 5 which yielded of fawn Wair four- 

 teen hundred, and by eftimation, twenty Chords of wood. 



A Wair is two yards long, and one foot broad, fixfcore Ed. Morphyj 

 to the hundred : fo that, in the faidTVee was ioc8o Wood-ward, 

 foot of Boards ^ which, if any of the faid Boards were 

 more then half-inch thick, renders the thing yet more 

 admirable. 

 tn the upper end oiRivelin ftood a Tree, call'd the Lords-Oak,^ 

 of twelve yards about ^ and the top yielded twenty one Chords cut 

 down about thirteen years fince. 



\nS.heffiddPark^An. 16 46 .ftood above 100 Tree/ worth 1000 li. 

 and the.reare yet two worth above 20 li. Jiillnote theplace, and 

 market. 



In the lame Vark.^ about eight years ago, Ralph Archdall cut a 

 Tree that was thirteen foot diameter at the Kerf^ or cutting place 

 neer the Root. 



In the fame Park two years fince M^ Sittvpell^ with Jo. Magfon 

 did chuie a Tree, which after it was cut, and laid afide flat upon a 

 level ground, Sam. Staniforth n Keeper^ and Ed. Morph^yhoth on 

 hor(e-back, could not lee over the Tree one anothers Hat-crowns. 

 This Tree was afterwards Ibid for 20 li. 



In the lame Fark.-> neer the old foord,is an Oakztree yet ftanding, 

 of ten yards circumference. 



In the fame Fark. , below the Conduit Plain, is an Oakrtree which Jo.Halton,' 

 bears a top, whole boughs (hoot from the boal fome fifteen, and 

 Ibme fixteen yards. 



Then admitting i 5t yards for the common, or mean 

 extent of the boughs from the boal^ which being dou- 

 bled is 3 1 yards } and if it be imagin'd for a diameter^ 

 becaufe the Ratio of the diameter to the circumference 

 is||iit follows 113.355 :; ^1.97 V^^y^^d-s which is 

 the circumference belonging to this diameter. 

 Then farther it is demonftrable in Geometry, that half 

 the diameter multiplied into half the circumference 

 produces the ^re^or quantity of theCircle, and that 

 will be found to be 754 ^il which is 755 fquare yards 

 fere. 

 Then laftly, if a Horje can be limited to three fquare 

 yards of ground to ftand on Cwhich may feem a com-" 

 pctent proportion of three yards long, and one yard 

 broad) then may 251 HorJe be well faid to ftand un- 

 der the (hade of this Tree. But of Scotch Cattle cer- 

 tainly, more then twice that number. 



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